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Endeavour sails to Hobart for Australian Wooden Boat Festival

Australian National Maritime Museum 2 mins read

This January, the Endeavour will sail from its home at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney to Hobart to celebrate the Australian Wooden Boat Festival. As a proud partner of Festival, the Museum is thrilled to be participating by sailing Endeavour to Hobart for Australia’s largest gathering of wooden boat enthusiasts. 

Designed to operate as a travelling exhibition which acknowledges the role played by explorer and navigator James Cook in the mapping of the east coast of Australia, New Zealand and many parts of the Pacific, the Endeavour will join 10 other tall ships at the Pacifica themed festival from February 7-10.  

Crew from around the world will set sail on Endeavour from Sydney to Hobart and use this visit to talk about Pacific collections held by Australian cultural institutions, Indigenous watercraft, the exploration of the Pacific by Europeans in the late 18th and 19th centuries, and the role of such vessels in expanding scientific knowledge.  

Visitors to the Australian Wooden Boat Festival will be able to board and explore the top deck of the Endeavour and learn more about the history of both this replica and the original HM Bark Endeavour. 

Museum Director and CEO, Ms Daryl Karp, has said, ‘We are excited to be participating in the Australian Wooden Boat Festival in 2025, the festival provides a platform for the museum to talk about the dual perspectives of our nation’s history – the view from the ship and the view from the shore. It also enables the museum to showcase the extraordinary workmanship of the Fremantle built replica to the wooden boat community as well as provide an opportunity for tall ship enthusiasts to sail.’ 

For more information about the Endeavour, see here: HMB Endeavour replica | Australian National Maritime Museum 

For more information on the Australian Wooden Boat Festival, see here: Festival Theme - 2025 Australian Wooden Boat Festival 
 

ENDS 

For images: Endeavour sailing 

For media enquiries please contact: 

Alex Gonzalez e: alex.gonzalez@sea.museum m: 0401 545 778

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